The film tie-in edition of Helen Cross's hugely acclaimed debut novel The film tie-in edition of Helen Cross's hugely acclaimed debut novel

Zusatztext 'This is the book to namedrop and a gripping read it is too ... Dark, intelligent and superbly written. Prepare to be seduced ... and shocked' Informationen zum Autor Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. She is the author of two previous novels: The Secrets She Keeps and My Summer of Love, which won a Betty Trask Prize and was made into an award-winning film. She lives in Birmingham. Klappentext The hugely acclaimed debut novel, adapted as a hit film 'A hand grenade of a novel ... Cross depicts a world every bit as shocking, and as violent, as the one Anthony Burgess created in A Clockwork Orange ' Daily Mail 'A sharp, disturbing and highly original debut novel' Sunday Mirror ____________________ It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. It's the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in...Mona is fifteen years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop.But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who's died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse... Vorwort The film tie-in edition of Helen Cross's hugely acclaimed debut novel Zusammenfassung It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. Mona is 15 years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, things very quickly get much worse.

Vorwort
The film tie-in edition of Helen Cross's hugely acclaimed debut novel

Autorentext

Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. She is the author of two previous novels: The Secrets She Keeps and My Summer of Love, which won a Betty Trask Prize and was made into an award-winning film. She lives in Birmingham.

Klappentext

The hugely acclaimed debut novel, adapted as a hit film 'A hand grenade of a novel ... Cross depicts a world every bit as shocking, and as violent, as the one Anthony Burgess created in A Clockwork Orange**'** Daily Mail 'A sharp, disturbing and highly original debut novel' Sunday Mirror ____________________ It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. It's the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in... Mona is fifteen years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who's died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse...

Zusammenfassung
It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. Mona is 15 years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, things very quickly get much worse.